{"id":51241,"date":"2021-02-05T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=51241"},"modified":"2021-02-05T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:22:25","slug":"eat-the-rich-coming-to-a-city-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=51241","title":{"rendered":"<b>&#8216;EAT THE RICH&#8217;<\/b> &#8212; Coming to a city near you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8216;Eat the Rich&#8217; campaign against celebrity influencers goes viral on TikTok<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n&#8216;We make them feel just as important as we feel&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>CARLOS GARCIA<br \/>\nThe Blaze<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51242\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51242\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51242\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-05-at-11.20.42-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-05-at-11.20.42-AM.png 731w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-05-at-11.20.42-AM-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-51242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Source: YouTube screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The &#8220;Eat the Rich&#8221; campaign founder Gina Bologna\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@audigaudi\/video\/6923317157845552389?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted the video\u00a0<\/a>on Friday and it has garnered millions of views.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know about the stocks, and I know that the rich are freaking out. I know that us poor people are like &#8216;this is kind of cool.&#8217; You want to freak them out a little more?&#8221; she asks on the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to work in marketing and I know how much people like Kylie Jenner get paid for having the social media account followings that they have. Unfollow them. Unfollow them all,&#8221; Bologna continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know you might love them, but do it. This is how we eat the rich,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;We make them feel just as important as we feel. Unfollow them. Stop looking at their content. Even if it&#8217;s just for a few months. Do it! Watch it burn!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video received nearly 3 million views in a week and then received millions more when it was copied onto Twitter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ac7b8\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"7b365f520f5133220a925dcc280742c5\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1355344927237017601&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fanti-celebrity-tiktok-eat-rich&amp;partner=rebelmouse&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1355344927237017601\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Other TikTok users took on the challenge and started posting videos of themselves unfollowing celebrities from her accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Bologna explained her reasoning behind her effort to lessen the influence of celebrities on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This world is lacking balance and harmony, the inequality in this country is greater than it ever has been,&#8221; Bologna said in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/new-eat-rich-plan-asks-you-unfollow-your-favorite-celebrities-corporations-1566608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email to Newsweek.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The media structure has been corporatized, and has not been speaking for the people for quite some time,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We deserve to be FREE PEOPLE we do not deserve to be working BELOW LIVING WAGE JOBS to survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kylie Jenner, the one celebrity that Bologna mentioned during her video, has more than 214 million followers on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kyliejenner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, 23 million followers on Facebook, and 37 million followers on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KylieJenner?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/anti-celebrity-tiktok-eat-rich\">https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/anti-celebrity-tiktok-eat-rich<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Eat the Rich&#8217; campaign against celebrity influencers goes viral on TikTok<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}